Document Actions
Vehicle Criminal Interdiction Training Program (VCITP) -- RPI
This program is designed specifically for state, local, campus, and tribal law enforcement personnel in rural jurisdictions. This program is designed to provide training at selected sites throughout the country. Instruction consists of classroom lecture on fourth amendment search and seizure issues, terrorist criminal activity, pre-stop and post-stop vehicle and occupant (s) indicators, and roadside interview techniques including non-verbal communications. The students will participate in teams, performing hands on scenarios including; indicator recognition, interviewing techniques, proper search techniques, hidden compartment identification, and evidence collection and processing.
Type: Advanced
Length: 3 days
Curriculum
The comprehensive three day program includes
Fourth Amendment
- Requirements for conducting legal searches
- Warrant and warrantless searches
- Preparing legally sufficient criminal complaints
Explosives / Improvised Explosive Devices
- Identify types/classes of explosives
- Improvised explosive components
- Response procedures
- Duties of first responder on scene
Highway Criminal Interdiction
- Concepts of highway criminal interdiction
- Elements to criminal interdiction arising from traffic stops
- Indicators of criminal and deceptive activity
- Recommended sequence of events for
- obtaining consent to search
- Methods of concealment
- Methods of preserving the evidence
Tuition and Cost
- Tuition is FREE for qualified applicants.
- Lodging will be provided FREE for training programs conducted at the FLETC in Artesia, NM; Charleston, SC; and Glynco, GA, for those participants who live more than 50 miles from the training site.
- Free lodging may be available at other training venues. Availability of free lodging will be included in the confirmation notice.
- Meals and travel costs will NOT be funded by the RPI.
Prerequisites for Attendance
This training program is open to qualified/full-time, city, campus,
county, state and tribal law enforcement officers who work in a “rural
area” which is defined as an area that is not located in a metropolitan
statistical area, as defined by the Office of Management and Budget (www.whitehouse.gov/omb/bulletins/fy2009/09-01.pdf).
Registration Information
- The best way to register is via the on-line registration system. This system allows you to register at your convenience, change your courses, cancel out of a program, and receive electronic feedback on the status of your request.
- Create an Account — This account allows you to apply for all training. This account also lets you track the training you have applied. Once you have signed up for the account, you will receive a user name and password by email. Then, you will be ready to sign in and request a seat in training programs.
- Training Account Login — Use If You Already Have a FLETC Training Account
- When registering on-line, qualified attendees should select RPI training courses first in order to ensure they receive free tuition and free lodging where available.
- If class information is not
available via the on-line system, you may submit a request for
registration by FAX only. Please download and complete the fillable registration request on your computer and FAX the completed document to the Rural Policing Institute at (912) 261-4047.
Contact Information
If you have questions or need additional information, contact us at : FLETC-RuralPolicingInstitute@dhs.gov.
This page contains links to some PDF files. To view PDFs you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Training Dates
There are currently no training dates or other items within this program.